Lyonetiidae

Lyonetiidae
	Lyonetia prunifoliella imago
	mines of Lyonetia clerkella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Yponomeutoidea
Family:	Lyonetiidae; Stainton, 1854
Genera
	See text.

Lyonetiidae is a family of moths with some 200 described species.^[1] These are small, slender moths, the wingspan rarely exceeding 1 cm. The very narrow forewings, held folded backwards covering the hindwings and abdomen, often have pointed apices noticeably up- or down-turned. The larvae are leaf miners.

The families Bucculatricidae and Bedelliidae are sometimes considered a subfamily of Lyonetiidae.

Genera

Acanthocnemes
Arctocoma
Atalopsycha
Busckia
Cateristis
Chrysolytis
Cladarodes
Compsoschema
Copobathra
Crobylophora
Cycloponympha

Daulocoma
Diplothectis
Erioptris
Eulyonetia
Exegetia
Hierocrobyla
Leioprora
Leucoedemia
Leucoptera
Lyonetia
Micropostega

References

^ van Nieukerken; et al. (2011). "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 212–221.

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[1] van Nieukerken; et al. (2011). "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 212–221.

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